"Overall: we had a wonderful holiday - travelled as two girlfriends giving our husband’s a week’s respite care. Location: right on the beach and close to another fabulous beach flanked by a lagoon. The beach is a nudist beach - perfect for not sitting around in wet beach wear all day, but might not be everyone’s favourite.
Hotel: The rooms were clean and spacious with probably the most comfortable hotel beds we’d ever slept on. The food was excellent with lots of choice and we were glad we were only half board to avoid excessive weight gain! The cava at breakfast was a real treat. The staff were all lovely.
I do sometimes review hotels as I benefit from reading them - and I would definitely recommend this one, it’s excellent. However, I also wanted to write this out of a little frustration too regarding the gym.
- we chose the hotel as the pictures appeared to show a decent sized and equipped gym but sadly it didn’t quite live up to expectations, it’s true it is better than most hotel gyms I’ve tried abroad but it lacked a squat rack and the Smith machine was very old with a limited selection of plates, there was no proper cable system and the cables available were not adjustable with a limited number of exercises. There were free weights (2.5kg increments) but one of the benches couldn’t be adjusted (there were 2) and they were very flimsy and light. There was one very short bar - not a standard 20kg one. One of the treadmills wasn’t working properly and the other cardio equipment consisted of a cross trainer and bike only. There was a leg extension machine, prone hamstring curl machine and one that was designed to do multiple leg exercises such as abduction etc. We are regular gym rats so we made do and as I said it was one of the better hotel gyms but I do wish hotels didn’t just treat gyms as something of an afterthought without really thinking about the people who use them or proper maintenance.
Overall; we ate well, slept well, enjoyed the location and had a good time. The zoo is also worth a visit."
